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‖ obex|ˈəʊbɛks|
[L. obex, obic-em barrier, bolt, f. obicĕre to cast in front of, f. ob- (ob- 1 a) + jacĕre to cast.]
1. An impediment, an obstacle. Now rare or Obs.
1611Coryat Crudites 442 That he might object the same as an obex or barre for repulsing the violent inuasion of the Batavians. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xix. 337 The great obex or bar to our enjoyment of God, is..removed by the death of Christ. 1874Chron. Convocation 29 Apr. 126 If this Lower House should interpose any obex or bar.
2. Anat. A small plate of white nervous substance sometimes occurring in the membrane forming the roof of the fourth ventricle of the brain, over the point of the calamus scriptorius, and filling the angle between the diverging funiculi graciles. Syd. Soc. Lex. (1892). |